Susan Prescott

Dr. Susan Prescott

1. Division of Paediatrics, School Medicine, University of Western, Australia, Perth WA 6009, Australia
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Biography

Prof. Susan L. Prescott MD, PhD, is a pediatrician, immunologist, artist, and award-winning author, internationally recognised for her cutting-edge research on the early environmental determinants of health and disease. She is a Professor of Planetary Health at the University of Western Australia and founding Director of the Nova Network. Her work promotes awareness of the interconnections between personal and planetary health in ways that inspire creative, integrated, and wise approaches, grounded in reciprocity, for social and ecological justice and flourishing futures. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Challenges, which promotes interdisciplinary discourse in planetary health, and founding Director of The ORIGINS project, an intervention birth cohort of 10,000 families aimed at improving all aspects of long-term physical and emotional health. She was also the founding President of the DOHaD Society (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease) of Australia and New Zealand, and she previously served as a Director of the World Allergy Organization.

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